Unloading a modular pstore backend with records in pstorefs would
trigger the dput() double-drop warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2569 at fs/dcache.c:762 dput.part.0+0x3f3/0x410
Using the combo of d_drop()/dput() (as mentioned in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst) isn't the right approach here, and
leads to the reference counting problem seen above. Use d_invalidate()
and update the code to not bother checking for error codes that can
never happen.
Suggested-by: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Fixes: 609e28bb139e ("pstore: Remove filesystem records when backend is unregistered") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
--- Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org